# kaal:claim:5254152-029

**Claim.** A DAO that offers no paid work opportunities for participants stifles engagement, as scored for Hop DAO with a Work to Earn score of 1.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- DAOs with no compensated contribution channel

**Source quote.**

> The DAO does not offer paid work opportunities for participants, stifling engagement (W: 1).

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *DAO Market Meta Analysis 2024* (2024), APPENDIX A: DAO Dataset, Hop DAO, page 35

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, DAO Market Meta Analysis 2024 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5254152

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `bb2052d809a4615f0f3e2526ba6416293c40d00260149ba4fe6f38addf052796` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202024%20-%20DAO%20Market%20Meta%20Analysis%202024.pdf

**Failure mode.** absent work to earn channel  (family: governance-participation-collapse)

**Topics.** risk-and-incentives, dao

**Keywords.** work-to-earn, contributor-incentives, participation, dao-scoring

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